The Summit

A summit is the highest point of a mountain, and as such has room for only one human at a time; the next one must stand further down.

What happens, however, if two people carrying the same load are headed for the summit at the same time from different directions?

Bending one's head under the load so as to see only one's feet rather than the other person, works only for a while.

When the approach becomes very close there will either be a clattering noise or a clash, depending on whether there will be an agreement on a summit talk or insistence on dogma.

This suspenseful moment, a recurring part both of private life and of politics writ large, has been captured in this aluminum sculpture created by Florian Lettl after a painting by Wolfgang Lettl.